How to keep track of weblogs I have found what I was looking for. Call it a weblog monitor, a blogroll or a weblog watchlist. I am talking of a tool which organises the weblogs you read in a chronological way, i.e. the last updated ones on top of the list and the lazy guys & girls who didn't write anything recently on the bottom of the list. Up to now I have been using blo.gs. It worked fine but it had the disadvantage that it only took into account weblogs pinging to weblogs.com and some other monitor sites or to blo.gs directly. I found freshblogs (via smi) which tracks any site even if the site does not ping. This is my current watchlist with music sites. None of these weblogs/sites pings but I can still keep track of the last updates this way. A small step for mankind but a big step for the weblog community (or at least for those webloggers like me who are not able to program a weblog monitor themselves). Freshblogs can still be improved, e.g. the possibility to immediately open new windows from the monitor would be nice but I am sure new options will come soon. Another improvement could be a more frequent update check as I have got the impression that the list order only changes about once every three to six hours. A problem seems to be that websites showing up on top of the list do not always contain what I'd call new stuff. According to the discussion thread How Does Freshblog track sites?: "When freshblogs has to scan a site it downloads the page pointed to by the URL. Freshblogs calculates an MD5 checksum from the page and stores this checksum in the database. Unfortunately sometimes people's web sites have dynamic elements that aren't really new content. The checksum dutifully reports the changes, but this isn't necessarily what is wanted. What is needed is a "fuzzy" checksum that tolerates slight differences. This will always be a best guess though and never as realiable as people "pinging" weblogs.com to notify updates to their site." Therefore I still would like people to manually ping weblogs.com whenever theý have added new content to their weblog. An easy way to do this is by using Phil Ringnalda's Weblogs ping bookmarklet constructor (you just have to input the name of your site and its url once) after every new post. The bookmarklet can be dragged to the Links Toolbar (in Internet Explorer) and is only a click away.